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This continues our look at batch files by demonstrating the use of the ECHO command. This command can be used to display things on the screen, or hide them, as you wish. Links: https://www.ahuka.com/dos-lessons-for-self-study-purposes/dos-lesson-16-practicing-batch-files-with-echo/

InfoSec; the language of security. What is Typosquatting and How Do Scammers Use it? Typosquatting, as an attack, uses modified or misspelled domain names to trick users into visiting fraudulent websites; the heart of this attack is domain name registration. Typosquatting is deployed by scammers to defraud unaware users. Attackers will attempt to: mimic login pages, redirect traffic, download malware, and extort users. Past Known Typosquatting Attacks...

This is a recording of a short introduction into my latest project. To help sysadmins everywhere the Onestein organization (an organization specialized in Odoo implementations) invested 4 month of research to create a set of easy to use Ansible playbooks to configure single sign on (SSO) for popular open source applications to enable them to authenticate to a Keycloak server as the central identity provider. These playbooks have been published on https://github...

Links Shotcut video editor website Useful Shortcut keys for the Shotcut video editor C = copy V = paste A = duplicate X = ripple delete Ctrl + X = ripple delete but send to clipboard S = split Tip not covered in my Podcast Splits are not fixed and can be adjusted. Once you've split up clips and put them in the right order on the timeline you can still adjust the cut point even though you previously split the clip because the clip is referenced to the original file in the playlist...

I share my story about how I got in to technology.

Quantum computing Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers...

Threat Analysis; your attack surface. The Hacker News New Chinese Malware Attack Framework Targets Windows, macOS, and Linux Systems. A previously undocumented command-and-control (C2) framework dubbed Alchimist is likely being used in the wild to target Windows, macOS, and Linux systems...

Preamble This is a case where I came upon a thing in Bash I had never considered before and was pleased and surprised that there was a way of doing what I wanted to do! If this is completely obvious to you, apologies, but it wasn’t to me! Overview Many programming languages have the concept of short-circuit evaluation in Boolean expressions. What this means is that in an expression such as: A AND B if A is false then the whole expression must be false, and B doesn’t have to be evaluated...

Over 12 years ago, Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs went to a "Pod Crawl" with (among others) Dave "The Love Bug" Lee, where he pitched the idea of a daily music promotion show, with a twist - it would all be automated, and use text-to-speech to introduce everything. The first show was released on 2010-10-24 and the last ever show (this one) was released on 2022-10-12...

Car company A: https://www.ford.com/ B: https://www.chevrolet.com/ C: https://www.dodge.com/ D: https://www.chrysler.com/# E: https://www.buick.com/ F: https://www.cadillac.com/ G: https://www.lincoln.com/ H: https://www.toyota.com/ I: https://www.nissanusa.com/ J: https://automobiles.honda.com/ K: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/us/cries-of-activism-and-terrorism-in-suv-torching.html L: https://www.autoweek.com/news/technology/a36189339/solid-state-batteries/ https://www.washingtonpost...